[say_]

This is very disappointing. These community sites like reddit and the old Digg are great for finding funny and unusual content, but they are very poor for discovering new content tailored to specific interests. Twitter is barely serviceable for this purpose, but there's also a lot of fluff.

I was projecting my hopes of personalized content discovery onto My News, but it looks hopeless now.

[drivebyacct2]

You couldn't be more wrong. Reddit's subreddit feature is it's best, most underutilized, and most ignored feature -- especially by its side seat critics.

(edit, it's/its)

[esdi]

You're so right. I used to think reddit had deteriorated until I discovered subreddits. Some subreddits have very high quality and relevant content.

[bmm6o]

Reddit has to solve this problem if they want to grow. The fact that "unsubscribe to front page" is the best advice for new users is ridiculous. They would be much stickier if they could figure a way to automatically determine what subreddits would appeal to a person.

I can't believe "beg for money" was higher on their idea list.

[_delirium]

That's probably good advice businesswise, but as a user I sort of like that people aren't really thrown into subreddits. The fact that the smaller ones (not on the front page by default) only have people who went out of their way to find them keeps them a little higher quality imo, and keeps the influx of new users at a manageable pace.

[bmm6o]

I see where you're coming from, but "new users should have a worse experience than those who've cracked the code" is not a viable long term strategy.

[SkyMarshal]

Absolutely. Most who complain about Reddit just haven't discovered or don't use the subreddit feature.

Rule #1: Unsubscribe from the Front Page reddit, and Politics and Atheism (even if you're atheist) subreddits if you're subscribed to them.

Then go find the good ones.